Police inspection of the applicants’ belongings leading to the retrieval of several dangerous objects during a demonstration aimed at protesting the use of animals in circus acts, followed by the applicants’ detention for two to three hours at a police station.
Judgment

The police’s disruption of a protest march, where several applicants were armed with batons and explosives to create panic and disorient the police and ensuing criminal convictions of the applicants.
Decision

Mass disorder among protesters and counter-protesters in Odesa in May 2014, leading to loss of life and injuries in a fire in the Trade Union Building.
Judgment

Death of a student as a result of the explosion of a stun grenade launched by a gendarme in the context of a law-enforcement operation during violent clashes between protesters opposed to the construction of a dam and mobile gendarmes forces.
Judgment

Mass arrests without individualised assessment after the dispersal of a sit-in demonstration blocking a main public road.
Judgment

Applicants’ criminal conviction for blocking a motorway as part of a strike.
Judgment

Applicant convicted and fined for participating in a demonstration (‘gilets jaunes’) despite an express prohibition of demonstrations in specific places and at a specific time.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Ban on a demonstration organised by the applicant trade union for 1 May 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the participants’ readiness to demonstrate in a convoy of cars and wearing masks and gloves.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Use of a water cannon by the police to disperse a peaceful demonstration resulting in injury to one of the applicants from being hit by pressurised water.
Judgment

Conviction and prison sentencing for taking part in demonstrations with clashes. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Arrest and sanctioning for refusal to free road leading to Parliament entrances. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Activist fined for a short and peaceful gathering, without prior notice, after handcuffing, with three other persons, to a government barrier in protest against a mining project.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prison sentence for involvement in non-violent, albeit disruptive, protest inside a courthouse.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Fine on counter-demonstrator for displaying, amid the crowd of his opponents, provocative banner despite police order.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Massive post-election protests and state of emergency.
Judgment  | Legal Summary

Deliberate strategy to stop initially peaceful protest through excessive force resulting in escalation of violence and multiple abuses by non-State agents hired by police. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Police handling of counter-demonstrators during LGBTI event.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Imputability of acts of demonstrators to organisers.
Judgment

Arrest and conviction for administrative offences during a rally.
Judgment

Police brutality against peaceful participants of a political rally.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Protestor injured during forceful police dispersal of informal gathering after demonstration.
Judgment

Unlawful detention following a number of peaceful public events in a campaign for the use of mother tongue in education.
Judgment

Criminal conviction of the organiser of a demonstration for the actions of certain participants.
Judgment